Researchers say they’ve discovered a new way to detect and track brain injury related to repeated concussions in National Football League (NFL) players.  Coughlin and her colleagues instead used positron emission tomography (PET) scans to track changes in a specific protein that regularly exists in low levels in the brain, but increases when the brain’s immune cells respond to injury.  {read more here}

Adding a scan of the entire head to a routine whole-body PET/MRI protocol reveals a significant number of incidental findings in the brain in asymptomatic cancer patients, according to a study presented on Wednesday at RSNA 2016.  Because the previously unknown findings could have implications for patient treatment or prognosis, the researchers recommended expanding a typical whole-body FDG-PET/MRI scan to include the head. {read more here}

A new proof of concept study has shown that an imaging technique more commonly used to assess cancer patients may also be of help in assessing disease and treatment effects in patients with inflammatory diseases. The study is published in Clinical & Experimental Immunology. {read more here}

Researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center demonstrated that a new PET imaging agent can detect metastatic prostate cancer in regions that it has previously been difficult to spot. {read more here}